Seven months after Margao launched its ambitious door-to-door waste collection programme with much fanfare, the exercise is besieged by a host of teething problems. Margao Municipal Council’s move to rope in the Self Help Groups might have helped the civic body to save a whopping monthly wage bill amounting to Rs 17 lakh. GUILHERME ALMEIDA discovers that engaging Self Help Groups will not help tide over the problems plaguing the programme without the strong backing of the civic body in terms of logistics and infrastructure support .. More